December 2015

Remember the old saw about hindsight being 20/20? Or, as filmmaker Billy Wilder put it, “Hindsight is an exact science.”

Yes, when something goes wrong, we generally know what we should have done … looking back. But people aren’t especially good at predicting the future. That’s why Hong Kong-based Deep Knowledge Ventures elected VITAL – a computer algorithm – to its board of directors last year. “VITAL” helps the company avoid pitfalls mere humans may have missed.

So, here’s my question: Do we need an algorithm to tell us there will be more and bigger cyberattacks on banks and […]